Arianna's 8th Birthday

What a special birthday!  

Here is the Birthday Interview:

How old are you today?  8 years old.

Do you have a nick name?  yeah- Anna.

What do you enjoy doing most?  Playing with the bunnies

What is your favorite book?  Harry Potter

What is your favorite animal?  Bunny, no, no, no, dog

What is your favorite color?  yellow

What is your favorite food?  Ice cream

What is your favorite treat?  Ice cream.  Do you want to change the first one?  Nope

What is your favorite movie or show?  Rio and Rio 2

Where is your favorite place to go?  The mall

What is your favorite toy?  Legos

What is your favorite sport?  Soccer

What is your favorite time of the day?  Afternoon.  Why?  Because. . .then I’m finished with all my school and chores and I can watch a movie and play with the bunnies.

Who is your best friend?  Sunny (the bunny)

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A farmer, no a cowgirl.  I thought you wanted to be like Joe- retired with horses.  I did, but I changed my mind.

Are you going to go to college?  Nope.  Why not?  Because I don’t want to.  Do you know what you do at college?  Nope.  What if you get to eat lots of candy?  I would go.  What if you get to explore and play with animals?  I would go. 

What would you like to study at college?  Dogs, no cats.  You can learn about cats.  How much?  Everything!!! 

What's your favorite talent that you have?  Building Legos

What have you learned in your years of experience so far?  Nothing.  Are you sure?  Yup.  Sure?  Yes

What grade are you in?  3^rd grade. 

How is school going for you?  Bad.  Why?  Because.  I don’t like it.  It’s hard to like school. 

What are you going to do to make it better?  What would you like to do?  I would like to skip it.  You don’t want to learn anything?  No.

What do you like most about school?  Reading

What was your favorite project or science experiment so far this year?   I don’t know.  The Archimedes Screw

Does Mom do an excellent, incredible or awesome job homeschooling?  Incredible.

What would you like her to do differently?  Nothing.  What?  I thought you don’t like school?  What do you want be to do differently?  Be nicer.

Are you a mammal, an amphibian or a reptile?   A reptile

If you encountered a chicken crossing the road, please describe what you would do first:  I would catch it!

What was been special about your birthday?  I got cowgirl boots and a cowgirl hat and a cowgirl shirt and a cowgirl belt- but it was too small.

What does Dad do for work?  He’s an engineer.  So, he designs tractors. 

What does Mom do for work?  Stay home.  Who’s job is harder?  Mom’s. Why?  Because it’s hard staying home. 

How are you liking Georgia?  Good. And bad.  Why bad?  There are too many bugs and bugs and bugs and poison ivy and poison oak.

Do you miss Kansas?  Nope.  Why not?  Because it had too many bugs.

What do you miss most?  So you don’t miss anything about Kansas?  Nope.  Do you miss anything about California?  Nope.

What do you like most about Georgia?  Animals.  What animals?  Lizards and toads and frogs.

Do you treat your siblings well?  Everyone except Grant.  Why?  Because.

Do you love them?  Everyone except Grant.

What do you think about having a new brother?  Good. 

What will be the first thing you teach Benson?  To eat

Arianna, how would you describe yourself?  I don’ know.  Can you please try? Yup. Right now.  Western.  Anything else?  Nope.

What would you like to accomplish this next year, before you turn 9?  I’d like to work at an animal shelter.

Any last words for your Birthday interview?  Nope.  Are you sure?  Actually there is.  Why do we do Birthday interviews?  So you can get a kick out of reading this when you are older.